Afghanistan

Afghanistan women's national football team have been successfully evacuated from Kabul after it was reported that the women were at risk of becoming sex slaves to the Taliban and being tortured to death. The footballers were among a…

Taliban will not announce the makeup of its government until the United States completes its troop withdrawal, two sources in the movement told AFP Monday. “It has been decided that the formation of the government and cabinet will not be…

Former Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani has finally broken his silence after leaving his country to escape the Taliban militants. Ghani ran for his life as Taliban forces entered Kabul on Sunday, August 15. Speaking from exile today, in…

Taliban have offered a pledge of reconciliation, vowing no revenge against opponents and to respect women’s rights in a “different” rule of Afghanistan from two decades ago. The announcements came on Tuesday night shortly after the…

Girls wearing white hijabs and black tunics have resumed school in the western Afghan city of Herat just days after the Taliban’s takeover. As the school opened its doors, the students scurried down corridors and chatted in courtyards,…

A British student who claimed he was stuck in Kabul after going on holiday to Afghanistan has been safely evacuated. Miles Routledge, 21, from Birmingham, said in a series of Facebook posts on Tuesday that he was being transported out of…

The Taliban has announced on Tuesday, August 17 an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government, trying to calm nerves across a nervous capital city that only the day before saw chaos at its airport as people tried to…

Afghanistan is a country in South Central Asia that has been caught in war and fighting for decades. Involved in this war over the years is the terror group, Taliban fighters that have been fighting power in the country. The extreme…

Former US president, Donald Trump has on Sunday, August 15 called for the resignation of his successor Joe Biden over the swift takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban militants, as US troops withdrew from the country after nearly 20 years…

Islamic insurgent group, Taliban have on Sunday entered Afghanistan's capital, Kabul to a negotiate a "peaceful surrender" of the city, a spokesman for the group said as foreign diplomats and many locals try to flee. Three Afghan…

The leader of an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan, who was responsible for a spate of recent bombings that left hundreds of civilians dead, was killed in an American drone strike. The deputy spokesperson for Afghanistan’s President…

Five hundred British troops deployed to Afghanistan were allocated a total of just £500 for Christmas, the Sunday Times revealed. Some said the defense chiefs’ frugality left the troops lagging far behind their foreign counterparts as…